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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olaudah Equiano| former slave who in 1789 wrote a memoir of hs experiences as a slave, includng his childhood in Africa, the Atlantic crossing and life as a slave, which deeply impacted British views on the cruelty of slavery; Equiano was purchased by a British Naval officer and ended up under a Philadelphia merchant who allowed him to purchase his freedom; Equiano became a sucessful merchant and adventurer}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olaudah Equiano| former slave who in 1789 wrote a memoir of hs experiences as a slave, includng his childhood in Africa, the Atlantic crossing and life as a slave, which deeply impacted British views on the cruelty of slavery; Equiano was purchased by a British Naval officer and ended up under a Philadelphia merchant who allowed him to purchase his freedom; Equiano became a sucessful merchant and adventurer}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:seasoning camps|centralized destinations in the Caribbean for new African slave arrivals to "season", or prepare, them for new conditions; about 1/3rd of slaves who arrived to these camps died their first year there, mostly of dysentery due to the horrible conditions}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:seasoning camps|centralized destinations in the Caribbean for new African slave arrivals to "season", or prepare, them for new conditions; about 1/3rd of slaves who arrived to these camps died their first year there, mostly of dysentery due to the horrible conditions}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:triangle trade|the geographic pattern of slave-trade exchange between Europe (selling manufactured goods, especiall arms, which African states used to acquire more slaves), African coastal states (selling slaves) and the Americas ( | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:triangle trade|the geographic pattern of slave-trade exchange between Europe (selling manufactured goods, especiall arms, which African states used to acquire more slaves), African coastal states (selling slaves) and the Americas (selling slave-produced products, especially sugar, molasses, rice, rum, and tobacco}}</ul> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Circulatory Letter|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Circulatory Letter|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:committees of correspondence|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:committees of correspondence|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Law|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Law|the British legal tradition of "precedent", or legal decisions based upon what has been "commonly" practiced in the law; for Americans, the common law represented a deeply ingrained right which included civilian courts and juries of citizen peers}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Sense|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Sense|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Association|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Association|}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:social contract theory|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:social contract theory|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sons of Liberty|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sons of Liberty|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act Congress|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act Congress|nine colonial assemblies sent delegates to protest the encroachment of "rights and liberties", especially trial by jury}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}<li>virtual representation</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}<li>virtual representation</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Vice Admiralty Courts|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Vice Admiralty Courts|}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord Dunmore|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord Dunmore|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Benjamin Franklin|as scientist and publisher, the most famous American in his day; up until final moments before war, was always conciliatory to the British, accepting of British rule, and sought compromise; however, stood firm for colonial rights, including representation in Parliament; was early thinker about colonial union, esp. given experience as Postmaster of the colonies (Albany Plan)}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Benjamin Franklin|as scientist and publisher, the most famous American in his day; up until final moments before war, was always conciliatory to the British, accepting of British rule, and sought compromise; however, stood firm for colonial rights, including representation in Parliament; was early thinker about colonial union, esp. given experience as Postmaster of the colonies (Albany Plan)}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Grenville|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Grenville|Prime Minister (head of Parliamanet), asserted British sovereignty over colonies and led various enforcement and tax laws through Parliament, including the Sugar Act; Grenville's tax policies shifted British tax policy away from mercantilism towards revenue-raising}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord North|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord North|}}</ul></li> | ||
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|+ Chronology of Colonial Acts | |+ Chronology of Colonial Acts | ||
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! Act | ! Year | ||
! Act | |||
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| Sugar Act | | 1763 | ||
| Sugar Act | |||
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| Quebec Act | | 1764 | ||
| Quebec Act | |||
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| 1765 | |||
| Quartering Act | |||
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|- | |- | ||
| 1766 | |||
| | | Declaratory Act | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | 1767 | ||
| Townsend Act | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | 1773 | ||
| Tea Act | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | | ||
| Coervice Acts | |||
|} | |} | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coercive Acts|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coercive Acts|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Currency Acts|1764: banned colonial use of paper money; colonials had been using paper money (basically an I.O.U.) to pay debts, which lowered their cost as the paper money was worth less than British currency}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Intolerable Acts|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Intolerable Acts|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Navigation Acts|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Navigation Acts|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Quartering Act|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Quartering Act|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act|1765; aimed to raise revenue (not mercantilist in nature), taxed any printed item, including contracts, titles, almanacs, playing carts, etc.; highest fees were on legal documents, so impacted the wealthy most; was efficient to collect; | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act|1765; aimed to raise revenue (not mercantilist in nature), taxed any printed item, including contracts, titles, almanacs, playing carts, etc.; highest fees were on legal documents, so impacted the wealthy most; was efficient to collect; was enforced by the Vice Admiralty Court; overall goal of the Act was to assert parliamentary supremacy; outraged the colonists, esp. enforcement by the naval courts}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|replaced the Molasses Act of 1733 and lowered duties on sugar with the goal of raising more revenue through a more reasonable tax rate; however, it also tightened customs enforcement and moved judicial oversight/ prosecution to the Vice-Admiralty courts}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Tea Act|1773}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Tea Act|1773}}</ul></li> | ||